June 22, 2014 -- Updated 1550 GMT (2350 HKT)
Some off-duty public safety workers ended up with an unusual catch when they went fishing off the coast of Florida. FULL STORY
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2 tread water for 14 hours off Florida coast until chance rescue
June 22, 2014 -- Updated 1205 GMT (2005 HKT)
Pair saved at sea, drifted for 14 hours
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Boat comes ashore
- Man and woman said they fell from a boat off Key Largo
- They were found by fishermen 7 miles off the coast
- The heroes included two off-duty Broward County detectives, one firefighter
They found a man and
woman splashing in the water 7 miles from shore who said they'd spent
the last 14 hours treading water, the Broward County Sheriff's Office
said.
Sean McGovern, 50, and
Mellisa Morris, 52, said they'd fallen off their boat in Key Largo about
6 p.m. Friday. The boat was in gear, and they watched it pull away from
them, the sheriff's department said.
"They are very lucky —
they didn't have any signal device," said U.S. Coast Guard spokesman
Mark Barney. "They were trying to signal people down with their T-shirt.
To be located and recovered by off-duty cops and a firefighter — that's
a stroke of luck right there."
About 8 a.m. Saturday,
two Broward sheriff's detectives, a Broward firefighter and one of the
officers' father-in-law noticed splashing in the water from their boat,
the sheriff's department said.
"We saw birds diving,"
said Adam White, a detective. "As we got closer, I saw fish jumping. We
saw a white male with his shirt flagging us down."
The men pulled McGovern
and Morris onto the boat. They were exhausted after drifting 10 nautical
miles and appeared to have mild hypothermia and jellyfish stings, the
sheriff's department said.
"We checked them out, made sure they were stable," White said.
The fishermen passed them
over to the Coast Guard, which carried them to the Fort Lauderdale
Coast Guard station. Friends picked them up there.
"A lot of people don't
wear life jackets because they don't have intention of being in water,"
Barney said. "It was a miracle they were able to tread water that long
and were safely recovered."
White summed it up: "They're pretty lucky."
And what happened to the
boat from which the swimmers fell? The Coast Guard said it washed up on
the beach in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday afternoon.
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